Principles of Microeconomics, Fourth Edition

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Principles of Microeconomics has been thoroughly revised, simplified, and updated for the Fourth Edition. Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of Microeconomics is the most modern and accurate text available.

Principles of Macroeconomics, Fourth Edition

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A excellent study of macroeconmics
most biased, left-wing econ book out there

Principles of Macroeconomics, Fourth Edition
Joseph E. Stiglitz , and Carl E. Walsh
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Principles of Macroeconomics has been thoroughly revised, simplified, and updated for the Fourth Edition. Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of Macroeconomics is the most modern and accurate text available.

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A excellent study of macroeconmics.......2004-01-26

Joseph Stiglitz has written an excellent introduction to macroeconomics, including a complete introduction to ISLM economic theory at full employment and with significant unemployment. There is an excellent introduction to monetary theory by this nobel laureate economist and former official of the World Bank. This is a book that undergraduates students and teachers can appreciate. Conservative proponents should recognize that learning from a master economist no less worthy than appreciating the wisdom J.M. Keynes or James Tobin.

most biased, left-wing econ book out there.......2003-10-26

Sitglit-Walsh macroecon book is the most biased econ text in the market. It is riddled with conceptual mistakes (I'm an econ professor), and the fundamentals are presented with flaws. One sales rep told me that the book is really meant to serve the liberal, left-wing leaning students/instructors. We had to chunk the book in the middle of the semester and went with another. What a waste of money for students and my time.

Study Guide for Principles of Microeconomics, Fourth Edition

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Errors abound

Study Guide for Principles of Microeconomics, Fourth Edition
Lawrence W. Martin
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This innovative Study Guide uses reviews, practice exams, and problem sets to reinforce the major ideas of each chapter. Unique problem-solving sections called "Doing Economics" give students the opportunity to apply what they have learned. Each section contains a series of "Tool-kits," which walk students through a specific problem-solving technique, several worked problems, and practice problems that apply the relevant technique.

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Errors abound.......2007-05-21

The study guide was kind of useful, but it often asked pointless questions about details with which we were completely unconcerned in my Intro Microeconomics class. Also, it often gave the wrong answers for multiple choice questions, resulting in such inaccurate assertions as "The statement that firms in competitive markets are price takers means that average cost equals marginal cost at the minimum of average cost." It contradicted the book as well, defining the long run average cost curve as the straight line running along the bottom of the short-run curves when in actuality such a curve is the minimum average cost curve, and it bizarrely defined the real product wage as the marginal product divided by the product price. This last error wasn't exactly a typo, because it appeared twice. I can only imagine how many microeconomics students this study guide has misled and confused.

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Study Guide for Principles of Macroeconomics, Fourth Edition
Lawrence W. Martin
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In Action: Managing the Small Training Staff (In Action Series)
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Excellent collection of real life training experiences.

A useful tool for HRD practitioners and students.

In Action: Managing the Small Training Staff (In Action Series)
Carol McCoy
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This title present practical ideas for action and in-depth examples of what training departments that range in size from one part-time employee to five full-time people can accomplish. Representing a wide range of industries, you'll understand the challenges and opportunities for small training departments.

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Excellent collection of real life training experiences........1999-09-04

As a training consultant I often get tapped by organizations to help design, refine and implement small HRD departments. The training function is often the last HR speciality to be added and one in which HR generalists have the least experience. "Managing the Small Training Staff" offers the reader a wide variety of initiatives and interventions for the reader to review. I have utilized this book in my consulting practice to expose new practioners to a variety of real life training experiences.I particularly appreciate the candor of the writers who elaborate on both successful and unsuccessful efforts.A great case study book for new trainers and a valuable resource for more seasoned practioners!

A useful tool for HRD practitioners and students........1999-03-25

I reviewed this book from the perspective of an instructor teaching graduate level HRD classes. Students in my classes range from aspiring professionals who have no prior HRD experience to those with significant experience. It is always a dilemma to find texts that can meet the needs of all the students; but I think this one can. For the inexperienced student, the 12 cases provide a solid base of information about what the training role is all about, at least in small training departments. For experienced practitioners, it provides examples of how other professionals have addressed opportunities and challenges common to everyone in similar roles. While it does not profess to be a compendium of best practices, it certainly can be used to benchmarks one's own practices.

The twelve cases cover businesses of various sizes and in various industries from a small rural bank to a large multi-national bio-medical manufacturing company. In none of the cases were there more than 5 training staff. The cases are presented using a somewhat standard format: a description of the company, a description of training's mission, role and structure, discussion of some challenges, a success story and some lessons learned.

If anything is lacking in the book, from an instructional standpoint, it is that it does not attempt to analyze or synthesize the information presented. Therefore, while it can be used as a resource for discussion, it likely could not be used as a stand alone text.

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Written to help bring agriculture's "Green Revolution" to the third world, Integrated Resource Management includes overviews of current agricultural production systems and their alternatives, demographics on mortality and population growth, soils, erosion, water availability, sustainable integrated agroforestry systems and behavioral adaptations.

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* Explains why a quality environment is essential for future agricultural and economic development
Demonstrates that integrated resource management leads to sustainable and productive agriculture for development
* Shows that certain agroforestry techniques conserve soil, water, energy, and biological resources and at the same time increase food and fuel supplies
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition)
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judge for yourself

Waste of time

Necessary

Being misdiagnosed in the 21st Century

Fascinating Isn't Always Truth

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition)
Thomas S. Szasz
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A classic work that has revolutionized thinking throughout the Western world about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. "Bold and often brilliant."--Science

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judge for yourself.......2007-09-25

Researched well, provacative, a classic. Worth reading if only to stimulate debate regarding the medicalization of human behavior. Note that most of those that give the book one star admit to having 'mental illness' or dealing with a close loved one that has battled it; not exactly an objective starting point :)

Waste of time.......2007-07-25

I'm a big believer in the abuse of so-called mental illness by both "patients" and their doctors to excuse the most heinous crimes. When I bought this book, I thought that Szasz would articulate some of those concerns for me. The book, however, is a complete disappointment. It goes on endlessly about proto-language and hysteria. At some point he also sees similarities between witch trials and the way in which he perceives psychiatry to victimize patients these days, but the comparison just doesn't add up.

I'm no fan of Freud. I consider him more of a quack than anything else, but when Szasz quotes Freud in order to refute him, the follow-up argument actually makes Freud seem more logical than Szasz. All in all, Szasz comes across as carrying some kind of chip on his shoulder. As a result his arguments suffer from too many incongruities. There is a disturbing callousness about this author and his books, as well, because he does not distinguish between those who use their "mental illness" to cause harm and those who suffer from a real difficulty to cope.

Reading Szasz, one gets the distinct impression that there are no good guys because whether they are patients, or psychiatrists, everyone is a victimizer. It is not only a bleak view, it's also untrue -- and unhealthy.

Necessary.......2007-01-31

This book is as needed as ever in our present age of "biological" psychology, where general practitioners who know little to nothing about psychology are quick to prescribe drugs in order to medicate the patient into a stupor sufficiently hazy enough that s/he will not care about the presenting symptoms, all while wholly ignoring the underlying behavioral causes of the turmoil and dissatisfaction. A mental illness, as Szasz argues, is not something one HAS, it is something one DOES, and the difference in this definition is the difference between a passive/helpless/victim stance and an active/creating/controlling one. If you are depressed then you need to change your lifestyle; you do not need to take a tranquilizer that would turn a horse into an unresponsive zombie.

Being misdiagnosed in the 21st Century.......2006-06-10

I have only read some excerpts of this book, but have ordered this book because my daughter was misdiagnosed by 3 major hospitals, including UCLA and UCI. Because of the medications she was given by these hospital psychiatrists based on observation, she started having mental relapses every 3 or 4 months. One psychiatrist told me after he gave her medication for schizophrenia which had an adverse effect that it was not the medication's fault, but her own mental illness that was getting worse. If the medication did work on his patients, he attributed it to the drug he gave the patient and if it did not work, it was the patient's fault. I firmly believe the psychotherapy method is like witchcraft of the modern age.
After numerous psychiatrists and hospitals, six in 18 months, my daughter was relieved of enough prescription drugs in her system to focused long enough to take a written exam of her mental state. The psychiatrist who allowed my daughter to speak for herself in these tests said she had anxiety and depression issues, but nothing more serious, although previously labeled with Schizophrenia, Bipolar and Manic Depression.

Fascinating Isn't Always Truth.......2006-05-14

When I was a psychology major, Szasz's views made for intersting conversation. Having been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, and later having worked as a mental health advocate, his views are punitive and cruel. How sad that fascinating often outweighs truth.

Myth Of Mental Illness - Foundations Of A Theory Of Personal Conduct

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Myth Of Mental Illness - Foundations Of A Theory Of Personal Conduct
Thomas S., M.D. Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness : Foundation of a Theory of Personal Conduct

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The Myth of Mental Illness : Foundation of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
M.D. Thomas S. Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness RE:Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct: Found

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Thomas Szasz
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition)

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The Myth of Mental Illness:Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas Stephen Szasz
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Total Rugby: Fifteen Man Rugby for Coach and Player
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Buy this one

Best book out there

THE Rugby primer

A great book

A great reference book for all ruggers

Total Rugby: Fifteen Man Rugby for Coach and Player
Jim Greenwood
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Buy this one.......2003-02-11

This is a great book. It's has tons of valuable information. Not for the guy who loves pictures. Your coaches and captains should have this book. It will make you a better coach, and improve the quality of your club's play. If you want to keep losing, but have the best parties, get some other book.

Bob

Best book out there.......2002-02-26

Great, great book. Both for the new rugby player and the old hand. Only criticism I have is that more illustrations and diagrams would be helpful for the total newbie. However, since that wasn't the intended audience it only becomes a problem because there's nothing else comparable out there. Like the Bible, everytime you read it, you learn something new every time. Or something that you weren't ready to understand before becomes suddenly clear. A must-have for the rugby obsessed.

THE Rugby primer.......2001-10-30

"Total Rugby" is essential reading for players and coaches - and useful for fans. The book covers the essentials of play, from novice to advanced. "Total Rugby" plus a rulebook will take you a long way in the sport. It's not just for 'students of the game'! Leave behind the 'it's just smear the queer' and 'if I hit 'em hard enough we'll win' attitudes and learn something about your sport. You'll never win against skilled teams until you ingrain the information encompassed by "Total Rugby". If you're ready for advance tactics and strategy, check out "Think Rugby" by the same author.

A great book.......2001-06-21

I've been playing rugby for almost 6 years, and I wish I read this book earlier. While I think this book is a lot more useful for coaches than for players, it is still a great reference- for example, diagrams outlining the best way to drive in a scrum, explanations of drift defense- all important stuff, and he also goes into detail about what each position should do- which is great for beginners, who are often out there not understanding their roles. Being a passionate rugger, I finished this book in one day!

A great reference book for all ruggers.......1998-01-30

Mr. Greenwood has all the basics in here, and it serves as a useful reference beginners wanting to get the basics of the game down, to more experienced ruggers who want to read up on strategy and training tactics.

Immediate Fiction: A Complete Writing Course
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The Book is Wonderful

Very Solid Book on Fiction Writing

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The Heart of the Matter

Helpful, rebellious, but why no novels...?

Immediate Fiction: A Complete Writing Course
Jerry Cleaver
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Musicians and artists might need talent to succeed, but writers don't, says Jerry Cleaver in Immediate Fiction. Cleaver allows that talent is needed to win a National Book Award, say, but otherwise, any of us can do it. All we need is the ability to "develop and exercise sadistic license." The operative word is conflict. As Cleaver puts it, "Happy lives make lousy novels.... If the characters are having a good time, the reader is not." He takes the mystery out of fiction writing. You don't have to write about what you know, he says; write what you can imagine. Don't fret if you can't find large chunks of time to write. Start with five minutes on weekdays and 20 on weekends, and you'll have 100 to 300 pages by year's end. Perhaps most refreshing about Cleaver's approach is the lack of directives. Some writing instructors demand that you work with an outline; others forbid it. Cleaver claims that teachers who tell you to do it one way or the other are telling you not how you work best, but how they work best. --Jane Steinberg

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The Only Writing Book You'll Ever NeedFrom the legendary creator of the Writer's Loft in Chicago, comes a writing course for those who want to see results now. Immediate Fiction covers the entire process of writing including manuscript preparation, time management, finding an idea, getting words on the page, staying unblocked, and submitting to agents and publishers.With insightful tips and advice, Jerry Cleaver helps writers manage doubts, fears, blocks, and panic all while helping to develop their writing in minutes a day. A practical and accessible resource, this book has everything the aspiring writer needs to write and sell novels, short stories, screenplays, and stage plays.

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The Book is Wonderful.......2007-06-08

I've read a lot of books on writing, but this one really hits home. This guy, Jerry Cleaver, has really learned how to write the way I did--bumbling and stumbling through courses that give you very little actual guidance on how to write. But this book is different. He sets down guidelines that will actually teach you what is needed and how to do it to make your work come alive. This book was recommended to me by two friends who used it in a writing class. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to write and publish their work.

Very Solid Book on Fiction Writing.......2007-05-30

This is one of the better writing books on the market. Jerry Cleaver believes that writing is a skill, not a talent, and that constant practice and dedication can enable anyone to write a good fiction writer. There are many practical tips in this book about how to write a good story. In particular, Cleaver stresses the important of creating conflict, and focusing on the character's emotional responses to that conflict. I've found his advice to be valuable when it comes to structuring my own stories.

Cleaver is a bit wordy, and I think he tries to stuff a bit too much information in this book about a wide variety of subjects (he includes a chapter on screenwriting, for example, which I don't care about). But overall I think this book is worth the money, especially for beginners.

If you're interesting in novel writing, I strongly recommend the following as essential: SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS by Renni Browne and Dave King, THE FIRST FIVE PAGES by Noah Lukeman, ON WRITING by Stephen King, PLOT AND STRUCTURE by James Madison Bell, CHARACTERS AND VIEWPOINT by Orson Scott Card, and TECHNIQUES FOR THE SELLING WRITER by Dwight Swain.

How as opposed to what.......2006-09-15

I've been a guitar teacher and dance teacher at different points in my life, and I still do both for pleasure. While I love writing, I cannnot say much for how many purport to teach it. Just imagine if you walked into a dance studio or a music store and they said as follows:

This is a guitar. You make music with it. These are the strings and these are the frets. You pluck the former and press the latter. Read this chapter, familiarize yourself with all the rules and thou shalts of guitar music by next week, and then I want an original guitar composition consisting of a minimum of one page of staff paper and/or several dozen notes. Be prepared to share this with the class next Monday for critique. We'll pick it apart, tell you what wrong with it, not offer how any practical techniques on how to fix what's wrong, and then we'll listen to some REAL guitar master CD's (the implication that YOU'RE NOT AND WILL PROBABLY NEVER BE ONE) and then speculate on why they composed it the way that they did, what the symbolism is and ad nauseum along with a lot of unnecessary technical and/or literary jargon to make us seem big and make you feel small...not to mention plenty of arty intolerance if you dare write anything that we don't consider appropriate artistic expression, since, after all we ARE the sole arbiters of just exactly what "appropriate artistics expression" is.

Sound like fun? Wanna sign up?

Or how about this one: This is a dance floor, this is your partner. Got it? Okay, now get out there, dance and then we'll criticize and pick apart everything you did. Read this chapter, familiarize yourself with all of these dance rules and thou shalts; and then we'll watch DVD's of some REAL dancers (AS IF YOU'D EVER BE ONE!), speculate on what they meant when they bent their arm thusly and then sedulously ape them. However we won't tell you specifically how to specifically improve what YOU did wrong, we'll just make you feel small and unworthy to ever deign to be artistic like WE ARE, so you'll simply have to flail around at random until you "get it."

Sound like fun, inspiring, encouraging or the least bit useful or practical? Nuh uh!

Yet that's exactly how many so-called writing courses are taught. If your dreams have been crushed by such self-absorbed arty creatures as those, yet even so you still yearn to express yourself in writing then take a peek at this book. You'll finally find a sound methodology for writing that actually parallels the far more logical and ethical methods used for the other performing arts such as music and dance. And if you're still smarting from those aforementioned vile arty creatures take a gander at the books Feeling Good by Burns and also Authentic Happiness by Seligman.

The Heart of the Matter.......2006-08-26

Jerry Cheaver has boiled down the writing process into a simple formula that you actually can keep wholly in your mind's eye when you write. The shorthand is Want + Obstacle + Action + Emotion + Showing. The slightly longer story that the prospective writer learns goes something like this: A character wants something desperately, can't live without it and cannot retreat from. When he confronts an obstacle that will not move, it forces the character to take desperate action outside of his comfort zone. When people are under pressure and acting in desperation, they reveal thier true inner selves rather than their surface personality. Conflict leading to desperate actions stirs up all kinds of deep-seated emotions of the character that lay dormant when life is routine. This is how the writer draws the reader in and gives the reader what they are really looking for: identification, to get caught up in the character's feelings and tribulation at all times, to agonize with them, to cheer for them. Finally, the old adage: show, don't tell, so the reader can enter into the fictive dream themselves, and experience through taste, touch, sight with the character. Now this sound pretty rudimentary, right? After all, like me you may have read a number, perhaps many writing books that tell you this and probably a whole lot more. A whole lot more. So you sit down to write and you get lost - character, pacing, detail, setting, subtext, blah blah arghhh! Why the despair? Because you know what great writing looks like because you've read great novels of heartbreaking artistry. What we can't get straight in our heads is that the heart of writing is having a great story that hooks and keeps a reader, and that, my friend, is nothing more than Want + Obstacle + Action + Emotion + Showing. But, you say, I don't want to write pulp fiction. I want to write something with depth and music, and that is more than Jerry's formula - much, much more. The point, the heart of the matter, is that that comes later in later drafts. Writing is rewriting. You want to get to making music on the page and teasing out through craft subtle but soaring themes that moves reader to sigh? Then write a great story first, then rewrite and rewrite to layer in the music and ahhh moments you crave for. The writing process is just like the multilayered transparencies of the human body you might have seen in grade school. The first and lowest layer showed the skeleton, the next layer muscles, then organs, then nerves, and so on. Think of each transparency layer as a draft with each succeeding draft adding depth and richness. Stories fail because of the story; writers fail because they won't believe how simple the process is. Write the basic story, then edit in later drafts focusing on the same foundational story elements (want,obstacle,action...)until you have it nailed. Maybe 4, maybe 10 drafts. Now, you can make music. Jerry tells us that anybody can write. We just misunderstand the process and our unrealistic expectations create overwhelming discouragement and we quit. But it's all an illusion. Read this book more than once and carefully. There's more here than first appears because the writing is straightforward and accessible but it is chock full of real wisdom earned through years of Jerry's teaching other writers and writing himself. This book is about the heart of the matter. Read it at least three times. If this book does not do it for you, then you really do not want to write. Snobs, of course, won't like this book.

Helpful, rebellious, but why no novels...?.......2006-07-26

I've read a lot of books on writing. Most criticize each other at some point. Dorothea Brande's Becoming A Writer is one of several sacred cows in the 'how to' market, along with John Gardner's guides and Stephen King's On Writing, perhaps the best of the bunch. Brande's book advocates 'fast and fluent writing' - she urges that would-be writers start writing the minute they wake up and to just write anything that pops into their head. Which works when you can fluently scribble about your hangover and fluently wear down your pencil whinging about getting the lawnmower fixed. Where the book fell down, for me anyway, was the part that suggested stories and novels can be hammered out in a journal-type fashion. Tried it, didn't work. If I could write novels like diaries or journals, I'd be on my 50th book by now. But hold it, isn't this supposed to be about Jerry Cleaver's Immediate Fiction and not Brande's slim pre-war-published homily? Thanks for reminding me. Actually, there's two remarkable coincidences between Jerry's book and Dorothea's. Coincidences concerning the authors, that is. Both books, for example, advocate freedom, fluency, looseness in writing and celebrate creativity tempered by technique. But both authors haven't published ONE novel!Uh, is it just me, or has anyone else noticed this? That said, I'm not here to slag off Jerry Cleaver, whose book is eminently helpful, the chief reason why I felt it deserved 4 stars. The book is rebellious and you can tell Cleaver HATES writing teachers (ditto) so in that way, Cleaver and Brande are aligned. Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write Is Excellent too - but it's hysterical in tone and suggests that a flea-ridden city rat could write if the inclination struck it to do so. I do recommend Immediate Fiction, however, despite the fact that Jerry hasn't published any fiction of his own (if he has, I stand corrected) due to its 'you can do it too' ethos and its workmanlike (should that be work'person'like in these PC times?) attitude towards techniques like Want, Obstacle, Emotion, Showing, Resolution. It's a fizzy formula but if you examine any successful story you'll generally find its components generally resemble this model. And I like Jerry's tone, too - his enthusiasm for what he's telling you burns through every page, and it's pretty hard to fake passion for the duration of an entire book. Recommended, with one directive: get Stephen King's On Writing as well as Immediate Fiction. King's 'out with the plot, in with the situation' approach is liberating. But combine it with Jerry's knockout formula, and perhaps you too can produce a knockout book.

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In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.

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Good Topic (although a bit dry at times)........2006-07-14

Frank Furedi's book is a wake up call to intellectuals, and a discussion of the demise of intellectual activities in modern society. His observation that cultural relativism and fear of elitism has reaped a harvest of "I'm OK, you're OK" ratings systems that are ultimately meaningless.

Rather than coddle the masses, treating them as brainless chattle, we should reinvigorate the reach for greatness so that society as a whole can benefit. If we attempt to protect everyone from feelings of inadequacy, we end up rearing generations of lackluster performers.

Wake Up Call for Bright People Everywhere.......2005-10-10

I ordered two copies of this book the minute I heard of it: one for myself, and one for the public library where I select the non-fiction titles. If I could afford it, I'd sent one to every intelligent person I know, for not only is Furedi dead-on in his assessments of the impoverished state of intellectual life today, his plea resonates with those who should be contributing to public knowledge and debate, but don't.

After ripping through this short but poignant volume, I felt giddy with inspiration, as did every single other person I suggested this book to. If the author sought to fill those empty cafe chairs, he has succeeded brilliantly.

Where have all the patents gone?: An article from: Food Processing

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Where have all the patents gone?: An article from: Food Processing
Kitty Kevin
Manufacturer: Putman Media, Inc.
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Food Processing, published by Putman Media, Inc. on July 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1057 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The decline in the number of new food and food patent applications beginning 1992 is expected to continue throughout 1995 because of the huge costs required for patent processing. Analysts say that an increasing number of food companies are opting to focus on innovations and short-term projects to avoid paying application and filing fees, attorney fees, maintenance fees and other expenses that accompany patenting activity. They also say that the enactment of the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act has redirected the attention of companies from patenting to new product labeling.

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Title: Where have all the patents gone?
Author: Kitty Kevin
Publication: Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1995
Publisher: Putman Media, Inc.
Volume: v56 Issue: n7 Page: p58(2)

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